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| c. 1200 |
| | | Bushido, the code of the samurai, emphasizes the necessary qualities of respect, decorum, courage and martial skill | |
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| c. 1200 |
| | | German pressure eastwards (the Drang nach Osten) steadily brings colonists into regions previously occupied by Slavs | |
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| c. 1200 |
| | | The Chinese develop a feature of great significance in the history of seafaring - a sternpost rudder which is an integral part of the ship | |
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| c. 1200 |
| | | The heresy of the Cathars (meaning 'pure' ones) is now so well established in southern France that they have bishops of their own | |
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| 1202 |
| | | The fleet of the fourth crusade departs from Venice - only to be diverted from its purposes by Venetian guile | |
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| 1202 |
| | | A German order, the Knights of the Sword, begins the forcible conversion of Latvia and Estonia to Christianity | |
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| 1204 |
| | | The French king, Philip II, takes Normandy from the English, and follows this success by taking Anjou a year later | |
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| 1204 |
| | | The crusaders of the fourth crusade besiege, take and destroy the Christian city of Constantinople | |
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| 1204 |
| | | The Byzantine empire continues, in much reduced form, with a new capital at Nicaea | |
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| 1204 |
| | | Venice takes the useful islands of Corfu and Crete as part of the spoils of the fourth crusade | |
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